Cockroaches have been around for millennia and experts tell us that in any post-apocalyptic environment they are the species most likely to survive and thrive. In William Proudler’s dystopian future world, which has been frazzled by natural events, the remaining humans fortunate enough to survive (the cockroaches) communication is by necessity via radio as the harsh sun-scorched outside world is hostile to all but the briefest foray.

One recalls the founding principles of the BBC as, ‘to educate and entertain’. The Last Baguette Company has taken up the challenge on behalf of theatre, in a show which in its brave attempt to explain the near inexplicable and certainly incomprehensible, is science for the interested-but-easily-bored (The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are their nearest competitors for this task). The ‘matter’ in question is ‘stuff’, that is, the stuff you and I are made of.